AuthorTopic: Princeton Review - WTF?! (Read 5175 times)

texas1

Most competitive students 1 Baylor University 2 Southwestern University School of Law 3 Brigham Young University 4 Suffolk University 5 Brooklyn Law School 6 Yeshiva University 7 Albany Law School 8 Widener University 9 Golden Gate University 10 Emory University

superiorlobe

There seem to be a lot of dumb posts in this thread regarding the fact that Yale is not in the top 10 for career prospects. The fact of the matter is that Yale graduates do not have a starting salary that is very high. This is because many go into low-paying lines of work. If you measure career prospects in traditional terms, then it is probably true that Yale grads do not do as well as the graduates from some other schools.

There seem to be a lot of dumb posts in this thread regarding the fact that Yale is not in the top 10 for career prospects. The fact of the matter is that Yale graduates do not have a starting salary that is very high. This is because many go into low-paying lines of work. If you measure career prospects in traditional terms, then it is probably true that Yale grads do not do as well as the graduates from some other schools.

how is salary a traditional way to measure career prospects? why wouldn't you just measure employment rate (at graduation and 6 months after)? people from yale take low paying jobs because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. so salary is a bad way to measure one's career prospects.

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how is salary a traditional way to measure career prospects? why wouldn't you just measure employment rate (at graduation and 6 months after)? people from yale take low paying jobs because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. so salary is a bad way to measure one's career prospects.

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superiorlobe

There seem to be a lot of dumb posts in this thread regarding the fact that Yale is not in the top 10 for career prospects. The fact of the matter is that Yale graduates do not have a starting salary that is very high. This is because many go into low-paying lines of work. If you measure career prospects in traditional terms, then it is probably true that Yale grads do not do as well as the graduates from some other schools.

how is salary a traditional way to measure career prospects? why wouldn't you just measure employment rate (at graduation and 6 months after)? people from yale take low paying jobs because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. so salary is a bad way to measure one's career prospects.

how is salary a traditional way to measure career prospects? why wouldn't you just measure employment rate (at graduation and 6 months after)? people from yale take low paying jobs because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. so salary is a bad way to measure one's career prospects.

i could see it applying to boalt too. i don't know about other schools. judicial clerkships also pay *&^% (in addition to the "i want to represent poor people" type jobs i was thinking about when i wrote my post earlier), which is probably why law schools report MEDIAN, not MEAN, starting salaries. at the top schools that have more clerkships, it might even make their mean lower than lower-ranked/less prestigious schools that don't send as great a percentage of students into clerkships. but i think most of us would agree that career prospects are greater at those higher ranked schools, since you CAN get clerkships if you want them (and work hard, etc.), or you can go into private practice if that's what you want, etc. just further reasoning for why they should use employment rates rather than starting salaries in their rankings, assuming that superiorlobe is correct that that's what they do.

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